The World - News from Sept. 8, 1987
A magistrate investigating a growing arms- and drug-smuggling scandal in Italy says he has evidence that one of the country’s leading arms manufacturers planned to illegally ship millions of sea mines to Iran. Judicial sources said that Magistrate Augusto Lama will question Ferdinando Borletti, the arrested head of Valsella Meccanotechnica, about the charges. Last month, Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti ordered an investigation into allegations that Valsella, 50%-owned by auto maker Fiat, had supplied mines to Iran between 1981 and 1984.
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